Word: estonians
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...speeches Murraymakes throughout. In a novel that doesn't revolvearound a climax that estranges its main characterfrom the reader by making him the subject of twoother people's conversation, Murray'sphilosophical effervescence is a rare source ofenergy. Yet, it cloys. For example, after a longdiscussion of how Ira's Estonian nurse used topoke fun at his dainty wife by daintily giving Irablow jobs, Murray mildly pontificates:"Revenge...nothing so big in people and nothing sosmall nothing so audaciously creative in even themost ordinary as the workings of revenge...
Glimp's enormous influence on other artists can only be described as enormously influential. Hemingway was suspected of lifting passages in A Farewell to Arms from Glimp's novella Say Goodbye to Your Feet, a tender love story set amid the depravities of the Bulgarian-Estonian war. Visiting Paris one weekend, Glimp told the young Salvador Dali, "I like the watches, but why are they all so hard? A watch should be soft." Later that day, he bumped into Henry Miller and startled him by shouting, "Your stuff is boring! Get some sex into it!" Once asked about Cubism...
Soracco, an Estonian-born "healer" who draws on Christian, Buddhist and Native American traditions, did not know the people for whom she was praying. All she had were their photographs, first names and, in some cases, T-cell counts. Picturing a patient in her mind, she would ask for "permission to heal" and then start to explore his body in her mind: "I looked at all the organs as though it is an anatomy book. I could see where things were distressed. These areas are usually dark and murky. I go in there like a white shower and wash...
BARTHOLOMEW --Patriarch of Constantinople --Headquarters in Istanbul --Position: In February, Bartholomew decreed that the Orthodox Church in Estonia was autonomous rather than under the authority of the Russian church, as it had been historically. It would therefore fall under Constantinople's jurisdiction. --Allies: The Estonian government and the church in Finland. While most of the other national churches will do their best to remain neutral, Constantinople may be able to count on Romania, Albania and affiliated congregations for moral support...
Peeter Rebane '95 says his borther in Estonia pays about $70 U.S. dollars or $700 Estonian kronas each month for access through an institute of cybernetics...